Welcome to our 50th Anniversary road trip....

While we indulged ourselves on breakfast I noticed that the food selections were very good except they had no yogurt.  I like to use yogurt instead of milk on my raisin bran….oh well.  As we have come to expect, the rest of the accommodations are always above average at any Country Inns & Suites motel....and....they also have freshly baked cookies! 

 The country side was open, near flat with the rivers cutting gorges in the landscape where the few trees were found lining the riverbanks.  We saw mostly farming and cattle along the way with a few herds of Bison!  But we also began to see the ubiquitous windmills.  Not the little individual farm wind mills that we saw occasionally but the huge white behemoths with very large, slow turning propellers.  These things are just gigantic, you can’t get a good perspective of their size till you get close or see a service truck at the base of one occasionally.  And they are everywhere!

Our trek west would take us 515 miles on I-70 as we clawed our way to the days destination of Limon, CO.  The wind would follow us most of the day but the gusty, oblique wind would cost us about 5 mpg that day.  It was raining when we began in the morning then cleared up most of the day.  But the closer we got to Colorado the sky became darker and darker.  When we crossed into Colorado it began raining again and would not stop till very late in the evening.  The roads were bumpy even though the speed limit was 75 mph, it was like Mr. Toads wild ride at Disneyland!  It was really an uneventful day but the constant gusty side wind and bumpy roads took their toll….after we were checked in and settled in our room, I crashed and didn’t wake up till 5am!